Big Brother 9: Live feeds report - Feb. 29

Danitexas-I honestly don't believe you mean that post the way that it sounds. First, "retard" was never acceptable-the term "retarded" was used to refer to people whose intelligence was below normal but the term "retard" has always had a negative connotation. In much the same way that when I started teaching-40years ago-we used the term "mongoloid". That term is also no longer used and has been replaced by the name of the person who first discovered the chromosome abnormality that is "Down Syndrome". We grow and change for the better because we are human beings with empathy and compassion for one another-we realized these terms could cause hurt and pain and so we changed them-that's a GOOD thing!

Give me a break - since when do once socially acceptable words become UNACCEPTABLE? Retard used to be the socially acceptable word - until kids on the playground started using it to poke fun - now we have to constantly change our DICTIONARY to become more 'politically correct'. I also work with disabled kids... it's NOT that offensive... it's only offensive b/c someone SAID it was? Give me a break. There are plenty of words that have a negative connotation to them - so let's throw out EVERY word that may appear negative??

Why does BB have to do anything? It is called freedom of speech. I also work with developmental delayed children, and of course would never say that word. Say your opinion and go on, don't give them power over you. I am glad he lost his job that was the right thing to do for the company he worked for, but it is his burden to bear. Hopefully he will learn from his mistakes and grow. I doubt it, but there is always hope.

I, too, am glad that Adam won't be working for the school or agency that he was before coming to the show-but I do wonder if that was a real job. I work with autistic and multiply disabled kids and his overall demeanor screams INAPPROPRIATE!!!!!! I also heard, through the psychologist at my school,that the head of the Autism Council of the US asked CBS to remove the entire show after Adam made his initial comment and when they wouldn't, he asked that they remove Adam-they would not, nor would they agree to sanction him in any way or even ask him not to speak in a derogatory way about any disability, most especially autism. It seems that the next step he took was to seek out Adam's employer who apparently had been contacted by hundreds of people, including many of the parents of the kids in his care-sooooooooooo Adam, the job is history and that's a good thing for the children involved-but it says some really unsavory things about the motivations of CBS and the producers of BB that they have allowed him to continue unchecked. I can almost understand not removing him-although he is surely a disgusting specimen of humanity-but, I can't understand them being unwilling to publically sanction him so that the HG and the viewing audience could see that maybe they have just a bit of integrity-but I guess they really don't.

These people are all beyond stupid. I'm glad Adam got canned, he shouldn't be using that term ESPECIALLY since he works with those kids. My sister is in Special Education and it will really make her mad when I tell her about it (You can tell she's smarter than me; she doesn't watch BB!)

Didn't Josh learn anything from Dustin last season, walking around wearing that crown really pissed some people off. I don't have the feeds so I don't know if Josh is doing it constantly, I guess if you're arrogant by nature, it's too hard to change it in the house.

For me, besides not having regular food (if I was on the losing team) the second worst part of the game would be the boredom. Nothing to do all day, except be outside swimming or whatever, that would get old really fast for me. I probably wouldn't make a good contestant because I wouldn't start fights or namecall or anything thse young people seem to do constantly. When you get older you realize how silly all that stuff is.

Retard is a six-letter word, not five.